Consumers who pre-order the Galaxy S22 series of smartphones before February 25 will receive some great deals from the official website. However, if you have concerns about the actual performance of the new phone, it is best to wait for the first batch of benchmark tests and hands-on experience reports to be released before deciding whether to start.
As in previous years, Samsung is offering two versions of the Galaxy S22 based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 and its own Exynos 2200 chipset.
However, the latest Exynos 2200 score is even more embarrassing, and it can’t even match the A13 Bionic on the iPhone 11 released in 2019 (and the 2020 iPhone SE).
Single-core comparison
Reports over the past few months have given us high hopes for the Exynos 2200 chip, especially the RDNA-based Xclipse 920 GPU in partnership with AMD.
At first, everyone speculated that the Galaxy Z Fold 3 is expected to be the first to be adopted, but we did not expect the performance to be extended to the Galaxy S22 series of smartphones, which still cannot make us feel relieved.
Multi-core comparison
Perhaps it was the difficulty of development and tuning. At one time, it was rumored that Samsung had cut off the Exynos 2200 version of the Galaxy S22.
Luckily, the company picked up the Exynos 2200 even though it turned out that the CPU boost was weak and the GPU was challenged in hitting higher frequencies and heat control.
GFXBench Offscreen
German tech blog Computer Base listed the various CPU/GPU benchmark scores for the Exynos 2200 and the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, showing that the latter is the only way to get the most out of the Galaxy S22.
In addition, Erdi Özüağ shared a similar story on YouTube, knowing that the Xclipse 920 GPU is difficult to provoke the Adreno 730. This is true in both the 3DMark Wildlife and GFXBench Manhattan test projects.
Of course, benchmarks only tell part of the story. In daily use, the two chips won’t make Galaxy S22 users experience much difference.
However, for loyal users of iOS, the iPhone 11 and 2020 iPhone SE that are still on sale (or discontinued later this year) do not need to be in a hurry to update and replace.